Newark, Del. (March 12, 2008) - James Madison senior guard Tamera Young (Wilmington, N.C./Laney) was named the 2008
Colonial Athletic Association women's basketball Player of the Year in voting by the league's head coaches, sports information
directors and members of the media. The announcement was made Wednesday night at the league's pre-tournament awards
banquet in Newark, Del.

Also receiving top honors were Old Dominion's Wendy Larry as the CAA Coach of the Year, UNC Wilmington's Brittany
Blackwell (Raleigh, N.C./Cary Academy) as the CAA Rookie of the Year, Delaware's Kyle DeHaven (Herndon, Va./Herndon)
as the CAA Defensive Player of the Year and William & Mary's Kyra Kaylor (Pittsburgh, Pa./Upper St. Clair) as the recipient
of the Dean Ehlers Leadership Award.
Young has proven herself as one of the most prolific scorers in league history. She became James Madison's all-time leading
scorer this season and is 115 points shy of the CAA's career scoring mark with nearly 2,000 points. The senior guard was tops
in the league in scoring and rebounding this season as she averaged 19.6 points and 10.0 boards per game. It is the second
consecutive season the CAA Player of the Year has come from James Madison as Meredith Alexis received the honor last
season.

Larry guided Old Dominion to its highest national ranking in eight years as the Lady Monarchs were ranked as high as 10th in
the Associated Press Top 25 Poll. Her club reached the 26-victory mark for the first time since the 2001-02 campaign, when
she also received Coach of the Year accolades. Her squad went 17-1 in CAA play this season and captured the regular season
title for the 15th time in the last 16 years. The Coach of the Year honor is the seventh for Larry.

Blackwell is the second UNC Wilmington player to earn CAA Rookie of the Year honors in the last four years. She led all of
the conference's freshmen with 14.3 points and 7.7 rebounds per game. Blackwell scored in double-figures in 23 of her 27
contests and connected on 50.9 percent of her shots from the floor. Her 139 field goals were also tops among freshmen.
DeHaven received the CAA Defensive Player of the Year award for the second time in her career, the first of which came as a
member of William & Mary in 2004-05. She led the league with 128 steals, which ranks fifth in CAA history, and finished
tops in Division I with 4.6 thefts per game this season. Her 426 career steals rank second on the conference's all-time list. The
senior guard also led the Blue Hens in scoring with 10.5 points per game and dished out a team-best 100 assists.
Kaylor, who earned all-conference honors for the fourth straight year, led William & Mary and ranked among the league's top
five with 14.3 points and 8.5 rebounds per outing. She ranks third on the CAA's career rebounding list with 1,110 caroms and
is fifth on the league's all-time scoring chart with 1,840 career points.

Kaylor is the first player from William & Mary to earn
the Dean Ehlers Leadership award, which is presented annually to the women's basketball student-athlete who "embodies the
highest standards of leadership, integrity, and sportsmanship in conjunction with her academic athletic achievement."

Joining Young and Kaylor on the All-CAA first team were Old Dominion senior guard T.J. Jordan (Portsmouth, Va./Wilson),
Drexel sophomore forward Gabriela Marginean (Cluj-Napona, Romania/Mt. de Chantal Academy) and VCU senior forward
Krystal Vaughn (Baltimore, Md./Lake Clifton-Eastern).
Jordan, who led Old Dominion with 13.2 points per game, drained a league-high 72 three-pointers this season and broke the
CAA's all-time three-point record with 313 career treys. Marginean, who tied the league record for the fastest player to reach
1,000 career points, finished second in the CAA with 19.2 points per game and was tops in Division I in free throw percentage
at 91 percent. Vaughn led VCU and finished third in the league with 15.0 points per outing and was second on the Rams with
six rebounds a game.

Other Lady Monarchs receiving honors Wednesday night were junior Tiffany Green (Chesapeake, Va.) with Second Team All-CAA honors and All-Defensive Team accolades, sophomore Jessica Canady (Williamsburg, Va.) with Third Team All-CAA honors, and freshman Jasmine Parker (Norfolk, Va.) being named to the CAA's All-Rookie squad. Senior Megan Pym (Newfield, N.Y.) and junior Jen Nuzzo (Newport News, Va.) were also named First Team All-Academic.

The Old Dominion women's basketball team will begin its 2008 CAA Tournament run on Friday evening at 5:00 p.m. in the quarterfinals facing the winner of the UNC-Wilmington/Delaware first round match-up. Live stats and video are available at caasports.com.